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Author: David K. Clark Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739107669 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 442
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"Only in the darkest of hours will a few seriously entertain the haunting possibility, almost unthinkable, that at the end of the day our best sense of the world, and of what is abidingly good, is an error." Does then the universe really have a guiding moral structure which is at once integral to the quality of human life? Empirical Realism is Clark's sustained, challenging and original argument for moral realism, one which not only provides the badly needed account of normativity--of what it is exactly that constitutes genuine moral obligation--but which also anchors that account within a comprehensive philosophical theory. The author's position, rigorously developed and defended, provides a trek through issues central to classical and contemporary philosophy. Masterfully navigating his readers through the global realism/antirealism debate in Parts I and II, his erudition--sensitive yet unflinching--knows no shortcuts. David Clark's first book goes on to show how intrinsic value, a value which is inherent and not conferred, is the independently real feature which both generates obligation and is the ground by which it is to be honored. This three-Part text has direct implications for metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, value theory, environmental ethics, and moral theory generally.
Author: David K. Clark Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739107669 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
"Only in the darkest of hours will a few seriously entertain the haunting possibility, almost unthinkable, that at the end of the day our best sense of the world, and of what is abidingly good, is an error." Does then the universe really have a guiding moral structure which is at once integral to the quality of human life? Empirical Realism is Clark's sustained, challenging and original argument for moral realism, one which not only provides the badly needed account of normativity--of what it is exactly that constitutes genuine moral obligation--but which also anchors that account within a comprehensive philosophical theory. The author's position, rigorously developed and defended, provides a trek through issues central to classical and contemporary philosophy. Masterfully navigating his readers through the global realism/antirealism debate in Parts I and II, his erudition--sensitive yet unflinching--knows no shortcuts. David Clark's first book goes on to show how intrinsic value, a value which is inherent and not conferred, is the independently real feature which both generates obligation and is the ground by which it is to be honored. This three-Part text has direct implications for metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, value theory, environmental ethics, and moral theory generally.
Author: John Henry Schlegel Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807864366 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challenge the received notion that the study of law was primarily a matter of learning rules and how to manipulate them. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula. Schlegel reviews the work of several prominent Realists but concentrates on the writings of Walter Wheeler Cook, Underhill Moore, and Charles E. Clark. He reveals how their interest in empirical research was a product of their personal and professional circumstances and demonstrates the influence of John Dewey's ideas on the expression of that interest. According to Schlegel, competing understandings of the role of empirical inquiry contributed to the slow decline of this kind of research by professors of law. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author: Stathis Psillos Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134619812 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 372
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Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it . In his book, Stathis Psillos gives us a detailed and comprehensive study which restores the intuitive plausibility of scientific realism. We see that throughout the twentieth century, scientific realism has been challenged by philosophical positions from all angles: from reductive empiricism, to instrumentalism and to modern sceptical empiricism. Scientific Realism explains that the history of science does not undermine the arguments for scientific realism, but instead makes it reasonable to accept scientific realism as the best philosophical account of science, its empirical success, its progress and its practice. Anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the state of modern science and why scientific realism is plausible, should read this book.
Author: Paul Giladi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Empiricism Languages : en Pages : 160
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In this thesis, I address the question of how realist is Kant's empirical realism.1 By 'Kant's empirical realism', I mean Kant's idea that the world of human experience is a public and knowame w*rld 'of ontologically mind-independent and causally interrelated empirical objects. In other words, I take 'empirical realism' to refer to the understanding of the empirical world as cashed out by the Analogies of Experience.2 In Chapter I, I discuss Kant's views on the form of experience, one of the main aspects of transcendental idealism. I argue that Kant was committed to anti-realism about the empirical world, because he claims that the form (structure) of empirical reality is mind-dependent, but that the existence of empirical objects is mind-independent. In Chapter II, I discuss Kant's views on the matter of experience. I argue that empirical realism has robust realist credentials, because Kant's theory of perceptual experience should be understood as a species of direct realism. The realist credentials of empirical realism, moreover, are further boosted when we interpret Kant as advocating semantic realism. I conclude, however, that when we check the claims of empirical realism against Kant's position on the form of experience, which is something that I believe we need to do, we find that the realist credentials of empirical realism are ultimately not so robust: I argue that because Kant regards empirical realism as depending on his views on a priori form and the existence of empirical reality, empirical realism is ultimately not very realist. In the Appendix chapter, I ask whether it is correct to call Kant an internal realist (i.e. a Putnamian anti-realist). I argue that there are many important differences between Putnam and Kant, and that therefore it is not correct to call Kant an internal realist.
Author: R. Andrew Sayer Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761961246 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.
Author: Bob Carter Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134495013 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 217
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In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal with issues such as causality, probability, and reflexivity in social science. Varied and lively contributions relate central methodological issues to detailed accounts of research projects which adopt a realist framework. Making Realism Work provides an accessible discussion of a significant current in contemporary social science and will be of interest to social theorists and social researchers alike.
Author: Tim Button Publisher: ISBN: 0199672172 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 277
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Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.
Author: Bob Carter Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134495005 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 232
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In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal with issues such as causality, probability, and reflexivity in social science. Varied and lively contributions relate central methodological issues to detailed accounts of research projects which adopt a realist framework. Making Realism Work provides an accessible discussion of a significant current in contemporary social science and will be of interest to social theorists and social researchers alike.
Author: Kenneth R. Westphal Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107320593 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 311
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This book is the first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason to identify our basic human cognitive capacities, and to justify Kant's transcendental proofs of the necessary a priori conditions for the possibility of self-conscious human experience. Kenneth Westphal, in a closely argued internal critique of Kant's analysis, shows that if we take Kant's project seriously in its own terms, the result is not transcendental idealism but (unqualified) realism regarding physical objects. Westphal attends to neglected topics - Kant's analyses of the transcendental affinity of the sensory manifold, the 'lifelessness of matter', fallibilism, the semantics of cognitive reference, four externalist aspects of Kant's views, and the importance of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations for the Critique of Pure Reason - that illuminate Kant's enterprise in new and valuable ways. His book will appeal to all who are interested in Kant's theoretical philosophy.
Author: David K. Clark
Author: David K. Clark
Author: John Henry Schlegel
Author: Donald Cary Williams
Author: Stathis Psillos
Author: Paul Giladi
Author: R. Andrew Sayer
Author: Bob Carter
Author: Tim Button
Author: Bob Carter
Author: Kenneth R. Westphal